ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,966, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Forced upgrade for airgapped network management system" was invented by Sumit Kumar (Karnataka, India), Gopal Gupta (Karnataka, India) and Peera Reddy Polaka (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forced upgrade technique for airgapped network management system (NMS) deployments utilizes a package upgrade record. The package upgrade record includes metadata about a target major version of a software package for the NMS deployment, and is generated by an update server that is airgapped from the NMS deployment. A control serv...